EximEximincomingI thought I would just update those who were interested in 
what I eventually decided to do in regards to upgrading our email server. 

The problem:
We replaced our gauntlet firewall, which had sendmail and virus scanning of  
emails with smoothwall corporate  server. This meant that I had to upgrade 
our internal qmail server to include anti-virus scanning and tighten the 
anti-spam measures. I was  not sure whether to stick with qmail or  or what 
anti-virus software to use.

The solution:
I installed  and had a look at it but decided to stick with qmail as we 
already knew this and did not have a lot of time to get it up and running. 
I ended up with qmail+qmail_scanner+mcafee uvscan+spamassasin and it's 
all up and running without great difficulty.

I had difficulty getting prices for antivirus software for Linux but 
discovered that we already had McAfee's "uvscan" on the CD which came with 
our MS antivirus programs. The documentation even supplied a sample script 
and perl program to download the dat files each night which was easily 
adaptable. 

I considered installing everything by hand but decided it would be easier all 
round, especially documentation, to use the bigQ to automate most of the 
installations. I did try qmail-the-easy-way script but this had too many 
problems and found bigQ more robust as I tried the install a few times just 
to be sure I knew what was going on.


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